Mthunzi rentre chez lui quand il aperçoit une femme en convulsions dans une allée. Sa nièce lui demande alors de l’aider à la ramener chez elle et il se trouve mêlé à un monde auquel il n’appartient pas.

avec
Nala Khumalo, Jamie-Lee Money, Inge Beckmann, Russell Crous

un film de Tebogo MALEBOGO

Afrique du Sud, 2019, Fiction | 9′ | 4:3 | en anglais sous-titré français

3è Court métrage

D’après des faits réels.



Titre : MTHUNZI
Année : 2019
Type : FICTION
Durée: 8’30
Format Image : 4:3
Langue original: ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Sous-titres : ENGLISH / FRANÇAIS / ESPAÑOL / 中文

Producteurs délégués
Tebogo Malebogo, Petrus van Staden
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Réalisateur : Tebogo MALEBOGO 
Scénario : Tebogo Malebogo

Producteur: Petrus van Staden
Co-Productrice: Jamie Petersen
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1er Assistant-Réalisateur : Walter Mzengi
Assistants de Production : Hannah Innacio, Suné Burger
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Directeur de la Photo : Pierre De Villiers
1er Assistant-Caméra : Fuad Casker
2è Assistant-Caméra : Alexandre Ortscheit
3è Assistant-Caméra : Nicolas Faure
Loader: Chantelle Potgieter
Chef Machiniste : Warrick le Sueur
Machiniste : Justin Vallay
DIT : Emile van Straaten
Script-Boy, Script-Girl : Adam Hansen, Amy Stohrer
Ingénieurs du Son : Ruan Pienaar, Juandré Viljoen
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Directrice Artistique : Lara Hattingh
Assistante Direction Artistique : Danielle Erlank
Maquillage : Hiroshi Adaniya, Sune Burger, Hannah Inacio

Photographe de plateau : Gabriella Achadinha
Auteur de l’Affiche (Poster Design) : Matthew Bradley
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Monteur : Petrus van Staden 
Compositeur de la Musique : Elu Eboka
Monteurs Son / Mixeurs : Edward King, Greg Albert, Alex Smillie
Etalonnage : Franscesca Verveckken at Priest Post​
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Remerciements spéciaux :
Panavision
Panalux
GIB Insurance
Phillip & Nicholas Doble

PRODUCTION
Vanishing Elephant (Le Cap, Afrique du Sud)


LIENS
* www.theelephantvanished.com/mthunzishort
* https://imagineindiafestival.com/2020/04/18/mthunzi-tebogo-malebogo-south-africa/
* www.lecinemaclub.com/archives/mthunzi/

SÉLECTIONS EN FESTIVALS
Les Festivals suivis d’une mention étoile (*) sont qualificatifs pour les Oscars

2019
Festival de Locarno 72 *
Festival International de Cine Rengo 15
Festival du film de New York 57
Festival international MikroFAF 10
Festival international du court métrage de Thess 13
Festival international du film de Chicago 55 *
Festival international du court métrage d’Uppsala 38 *
ACT Shorts au Musée
Festival international du court métrage de San José 11
Festival du Film de Carthage 30
Lobo Fest: Partie 1 11
AFI Fest 33 *
Festival international du film de l’île de Hainan 2
Bogoshort 17 *
Festival International du Film de Tapiales 16
Lobo Fest: Partie 2 11

2020
Art et essai Asie 4
Fête du scintillement 29 *
Le Cinéma Club
Festival du court-métrage Minimalen 32
Festival international du court métrage de Yountville 3
Festival du film indépendant de Santander 3
Carta Blanca : Felipe Montoya à Tabakalera
Festival international du film de Palencia 29
Festival du film de Tampere 50 *
SXSW 32 *
ImagineIndia 19
Festival international du film de Ramsgate 4
ShortFest international de Palm Springs 26 *
Festival du film noir de Seattle 17
Festival du film de Gimli 20
Festival International Signes de la Nuit 18
Festival du film noir de San Francisco 22
Festival international du court-métrage de Bangalore 9 *
Fondation de la communauté noire de Nuremberg
Afrika Film Festival Cologne 27
Webinaire Silwerskermfees
Quibdó Africa Film Festival 3
Rencontres Film Festival 25*
Festival international du film d’Arizona 29
Festival du film ivre d’Oakland
Festival du film Shnit 18
Festival du film d’El Paso 3
Festival du film d’Adélaïde 7
Hollyshorts Film Festival 17*
Interfilm Berlin 36*
Festival international du film d’Uruguay 38
Festival du film de Griot
Festival du film indépendant russe 3

2021
Festival Dakar Court (Sénégal, décembre)
Festival international du court métrage de Vilnius 14
Mecal Pro 23
Festival international du film Film O’Clock 1
Festival du court métrage de la diaspora noire
Festival du film de Borrego Springs 6
Humans of Film 2

PRIX
* Prix du meilleur acteur (Prix de la Meilleure interprétation masculine) – Nala Khumalo /// Dakar Court (Sénégal, 2021)
* Prix Spécial du Jury : Court-Métrage Live Action /// AFI Fest
* Médaille de Bronze : Meilleur Court Métrage /// Festival du Film de Carthage – JCC 2019 (Tunisie)
* Prix du jury du meilleur court métrage international /// Gimli Film Festival
* Meilleur court métrage international /// Quibdó África Film Festival
* Meilleur récit mondial /// Drunken Film Fest Oakland
* Meilleur montage /// Festival du film indépendant russe
* Silver Award : Meilleur court métrage – Social Awareness /// Queen Palms International Film Festival
* Nominé : Meilleur acteur – Nala Khumalo /// Queen Palms International Film Festival
* Meilleur court métrage (Sept’19): Pierre De Villiers /// European Cinematography Awards

Mthunzi gets distracted on his way back from the store.

Mthunzir returns home when he sees a woman convulsing in an alley. Her niece then asked him to help to take her home and he found himself involved in a world to which he did not belong.

starring
Nala Khumalo, Jamie-Lee Money, Inge Beckmann, Russell Crous

a film by Tebogo MALEBOGO

South Africa, 2019 | NARRATIVE | 9′ | 4:3 | ENGLISH LANGUAGE | SUBTITLES: ENGLISH / FRANÇAIS / ESPAÑOL / 中文

3rd short film

Based on real facts.



Title: MTHUNZI
Year:2019
Type: NARRATIVE
Duration: 9′
Ratio: 4:3
Language: ENGLISH
Subtitles: ENGLISH / FRANÇAIS / ESPAÑOL / 中文

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
The working title for our film was « Proviso ». A proviso is an addition or qualification attached to a statement, gesture or agreement. I feel all people have provisos attached to how they live. How they should act, talk, stand, dress, etc in order to be accepted in certain environments. A woman in an all-male workplace. A homosexual man who’d have to hide his orientation. A mixed-race person depending on what side of family they’re with. Mthunzi, our protagonist, is being reminded of his proviso. Despite being in this home to help, his race takes a forefront. Partially autobiographical, it’s a young man’s reminder of society’s snap-judgement of people who look like him.
The idea first came to me when I was walking through a suburban neighborhood and saw a lady faint in her doorway. I helped her grandson carry her inside and on my way out, one of her other family members questioned why I was in the house. I had to explain to him what had happened to his own family member. Even after explaining, there was an unease that stayed in the air, it clouded the whole scene and prevented us from seeing each other as anything more than society had conditioned us to see. He appeared ready to defend his family from me, a cue their dog took as it snarled at my feet on my way out.
As I sat on that moment, I began to think about the real fears we face in a country like South Africa. How we are conditioned, without it being our fault. I became interested in exploring those spaces, finding the limit. What happens if someone who looks like this enters this space? What are the stakes? How much explaining needs to be done?
We hope this project will be a way to interrogate these ideas. To use a form as malleable as filmmaking to interrogate a small part of our own place in the world, not only so that we can understand others, but for others to look into themselves and reconsider their own surroundings.

CAST
Nala Khumalo
Jamie-Lee Money
Inge Beckmann
Russell Crous

Executive Producers
Tebogo Malebogo, Petrus van Staden
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Screenwriter & Director
Tebogo Malebogo

Producer: Petrus van Staden
Co-Producer: Jamie Petersen
​​
1st AD: Walter Mzengi
Production Assistants: Hannah Innacio, Suné Burger
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Director of Photography: Pierre De Villiers
1st AC: Fuad Casker
2nd AC: Alexandre Ortscheit
3rd AC: Nicolas Faure
Loader: Chantelle Potgieter
Gaffer: Warrick le Sueur
Grip: Justin Vallay
DIT: Emile van Straaten
Script Supervisors: Adam Hansen, Amy Stohrer
On-Set Sound: Ruan Pienaar, Juandré Viljoen
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Art Director: Lara Hattingh
Art Dept. Assistant: Danielle Erlank
Make-up: Hiroshi Adaniya, Sune Burger, Hannah Inacio

BTS Photographer: Gabriella Achadinha
Poster Design: Matthew Bradley
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Editor: Petrus van Staden
Composer: Elu Eboka
Sound Editors/Mixers: Edward King, Greg Albert, Alex Smillie
Grade: Franscesca Verveckken at Priest Post​
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Special Thanks
Panavision
Panalux
GIB Insurance
Phillip & Nicholas Doble

PRODUCTION
Vanishing Elephant

LINKS
* www.theelephantvanished.com/mthunzishort
* https://imagineindiafestival.com/2020/04/18/mthunzi-tebogo-malebogo-south-africa/
* www.lecinemaclub.com/archives/mthunzi/

FESTIVALS SELECTIONS
* Oscar Qualifying Film Festivals

2019
Locarno Film Festival 72 *
Festival Internacional de Cine Rengo 15
New York Film Festival 57
MikroFAF International Festival 10
Thess International Short Film Festival 13
Chicago International Film Festival 55 *
Uppsala International Short Film Festival 38 *
ACT Shorts in the Museum
San Jose International Short Film Festival 11
Carthage Film Festival 30
Lobo Fest: Part 1 11
AFI Fest 33 *
Hainan Island International Film Festival 2
Bogoshorts 17 *
Tapiales International Film Festival 16
Lobo Fest: Part 2 11

2020
Arthouse Asia 4
Flickerfest 29 *
Le Cinéma Club
Minimalen Short Film Festival 32
Yountville International Short Film Festival 3
Santander Independent Film Festival 3
Carta Blanca: Felipe Montoya at Tabakalera
Palencia International Film Festival 29
Tampere Film Festival 50 *
SXSW 32 *
ImagineIndia 19
Ramsgate International Film Festival 4
Palm Springs International ShortFest 26 *
Seattle Black Film Festival 17
Gimli Film Festival 20
International Festival Signs of the Night 18
San Francisco Black Film Festival 22
Bengaluru International Short Film Festival 9 *
Black Community Foundation Nuremberg
Afrika Film Festival Köln 27
Silwerskermfees Webinar
Quibdó África Film Festival 3
Encounters Film Festival 25 *
Arizona International Film Festival 29
Drunken Film Fest Oakland
Shnit Film Festival 18
El Paso Film Festival 3
Adelaide Film Festival 7
Hollyshorts Film Festival 17*
Interfilm Berlin 36*
Uruguay International Film Festival 38
Griot Film Festival
Russian Indie Film Festival 3

2021
Dakar Court Short Film Festival (Senegal, Dec)
Vilnius International Short Film Festival 14
Mecal Pro 23
Film O’Clock International Film Festival 1
Black Diaspora Short Film Festival
Borrego Springs Film Festival 6
Humans of Film 2

AWARDS
* Best Actor Award (Prix de la Meilleure interprétation masculine) – Nala Khumalo /// Dakar Court (Senegal, 2021)
* Special Jury Prize: Live Action Short Film /// AFI Fest
* Bronze Award : Best Short Film /// Carthage Film Festival – JCC 2019 (Tunisia)
* Best International Short Film Jury Prize /// Gimli Film Festival
* Best International Short Film /// Quibdó África Film Festival
* Best World Narrative /// Drunken Film Fest Oakland
* Best Editing /// Russian Indie Film Festival
* Silver Award : Best Short Film – Social Awareness /// Queen Palms International Film Festival
* Nominated : Best Actor – Nala Khumalo /// Queen Palms International Film Festival
* Best Short Cinematography (Sept’19): Pierre De Villiers /// European Cinematography Awards